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Ex-health secretaries call for immediate payouts to U.K. tainted blood scandal victims


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Jeremy Hunt, Matt Hancock and Andy Burnham back chair of inquiry’s recommendation for compensation ‘without delay’

 

Three former health secretaries have called for the UK government to give immediate compensation to victims of the contaminated blood scandal.

 

The chair of the contaminated blood inquiry on Friday called for the victims and their families to be paid “without delay” after he recommended the level of interim compensation payments. Sir Brian Langstaff said infected people and bereaved partners should be given “payments of no less than £100,000”.

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At least 2,400 people died after contracting HIV or hepatitis C as a result of receiving infected blood from the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s, and as many as 30,000 people became severely ill. The scandal has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/30/infected-blood-uk-government-urged-to-compensate-victims-immediately

 

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They have suffered, died and waited a long time.  It's time to start paying for the mistakes that were made.  

 

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